You can read Sokal's various commentaries on this topic. His point was that many philosophers tried to make grandiose statements about science and mathematics t

You can read Sokal's various commentaries on this topic. His point was that many philosophers tried to make grandiose statements about science and mathematics that did not make sense at all. The philosophers were making statements based on their imagination of what certain terms meant, and not on the actual meaning of those terms. See the links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10715872 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10715872